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Re: Linux-style kernel PRNGs and the FIPS140-2 test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Fields)
Tue Jan 15 15:52:44 2002
Message-Id: <200201152041.g0FKfcl22455@sparkle.generation.net>
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@reefedge.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: Adam Fields <fields@surgam.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:23:05 EST."
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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:41:38 -0500
Thor Lancelot Simon says:
> Many operating systems use "Linux-style" (environmental noise
> stirred with a hash function) generators to provide "random"
> and pseudorandom data on /dev/random and /dev/urandom
> respectively. A few modify the general Linux design by adding an
> output buffer which is not stirred so that bits which have already
> been output are not stirred into the pool of "new" "random" data
> (IMO, not doing this is insane, but that's a different subject).
[...]
Does the above description also apply to truerand, or is that subtly
different?
- Adam
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